Amazon Hits $1,000

Amazon’s share price briefly topped $1,000 in early trading on Tuesday, a symbolic milestone for Jeff Bezos’ e-commerce company. Amazon’s stock is up sharply over the last three months, the latest surge in a climb that has lasted two decades.

Another big tech stock is also near the $1,000 mark: Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is trading around $996 a share, having also risen sharply in recent months.

Amazon is making itself indispensable on a number of fronts, most notably e-commerce and cloud computing. It is also expanding into areas like artificial intelligence and entertainment services. Our tech columnist recently wrote that of the big five tech companies — Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft — the one he would have the hardest time giving up was Amazon.

• Its original television and film programming is good and getting better. The series “Transparent” is already a major hit, and the company just struck a deal to adapt Colson Whitehead’s novel, “The Underground Railroad,” into a film directed by the Oscar winner Barry Jenkins.

• All this, and it is adding jobs — this year, Amazon said it would add 100,000 jobs to meet demand on a number of fronts.

And those are just headlines from the last six months.

What to Watch For: Deutsche Bank Conference

• Deutsche Bank’s annual global financial services conference in New York began on Tuesday and runs for two days. The lender’s chief executive, John Cryan, opened the event and participated in a keynote conversation with Laurence D. Fink, the chief executive of BlackRock.